The music video that connects President Trump to his son's meeting with a Kremlin-backed lawyer
The music video that connects President Trump to his son’s meeting with a Kremlin-backed lawyer
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“Now that he ran and was elected, he does not forget his friends.”
CREDIT: Screenshot from “EMIN In Another Life Official Music Video ft. Donald Trump and Miss Universe 2013 Contestants”
After months of deriding suggestions that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump Jr., who served as a top aide in his father’s presidential campaign, made a stunning admission on Sunday.Trump Jr. admitted that he took a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer with the expectation that she would provide him with information damaging to Hillary Clinton. He brought along Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager at the time, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a top adviser. In a statement released Sunday, Trump Jr. makes it clear that his biggest disappointment was, he claims, that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya didn’t deliver the goods. It represents “the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help,” according to the New York Times.
President Donald Trump quickly attempted to distance himself from the meeting. A spokesman for Trump’s personal lawyer said he “was unaware of the meeting and did not attend it.” Not so fast.
Trump Jr. said the meeting was set up by “an acquaintance I knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.” The Washington Post revealed that acquaintance was music publicist Rob Goldstone.
Goldstone, in turn, told the Post that “he had arranged the meeting at request of a Russian client.” He refused to disclose the name of the client, but Goldstone is the manager for a Russian pop singer named Emin Agalarov.
Agalarov’s father, billionaire developer Aras, sponsored the 2013 Miss Universe pageant. They’ve both been quite public about their ongoing relationship with Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
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